Making it Handmade screening on ABC2 #subversive #plush #Melbourne #geekgirl

Think craft is for grannies? Think again.

A seditious and subversive subculture is gaining momentum in Melbourne. But rather than wielding megaphones and placards, they’re cross-stitching slogans on hurricane wire and constructing plush female genitalia from craft supplies.

Following four local women who’ve taken a seemingly staid past-time and injected it with a youthful, modern aesthetic, filmmaker Anna Brownfield shows a side of craft more closely aligned with punk DIY culture than with Martha Stewart and ‘home sweet home’ tapestries.

“I wanted to show that craft was no longer daggy but had moved into a new era and was being reclaimed by women who had been brought up as feminists.” – filmmaker Anna Brownfield

Starring
Pip Lincolne, Gemma Jones, Faythe Levine, Rayna Fahey, Casey Jenkins and the awesome Melbourne craft community

Sunday, August 14 at 9:30pm – August 15 at 12:30am

In your lounge room with the TV on to ABC2

Casting for Beauty and the Geek – June 12th #Melbourne #geekgirl #gurls

Currently casting the next Series of the show Beauty and the Geek, Southern Star sent me this invitation to distribute. There’s a lot of discussion as to why gurls are not being cast as geeks; but there doesn’t seem anything to stop anyone if they want to apply. So, put your best code forward and apply via the link below and see what happens.

I was politely asked to say “we are looking for Geeks to apply”. Auditions will be in Melbourne on Saturday 12^th June at Stamford Plaza, Melbourne. Other cities and audition dates can also be found via the link supplied.

http://au.tv.yahoo.com/beauty-and-the-geek/

ABC wants your mashups for Q&A

CALL FOR 1 MINUTE VIDEOS TO SHOW ON THE ABC

Q&A is looking for 30-second to 1 minute mash-ups, political, satirical and humorous videos, to end each show. This is a great opportunity for filmmakers to get their work on national television.

Deadline: Ongoing

More info can be found at http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/mashups.htm

RSPCA Animal Walk is back. Help celebrate RSPCA Awareness Week

To celebrate RSPCA Awareness Week (Oct 1 – 8), the RSPCA has launched a digitally restored version of its most famous television advertisement – Animal Walk.

From the biggest elephant to the smallest wombat, the iconic production from the RSPCA will amble back onto television screens over the coming weeks.

Created 21 years ago, Animal Walk was the first brand ad of its kind in Australia and remains one of the most recgonised advertisements ever made in this country.

The production not only introduced Australians to their favourite little bandaged wombat but it was actually responsible for coining the RSPCA’s slogan: For all creatures great and small. The wombat went on to become the RSPCA’s much-loved mascot.

Watch the Animal Walk Video

World Television launches online video portal on Climate Change

World Television has launched climatetalks.tv, an online video news portal for journalists in the lead up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP15). COP15, the most significant global meeting this year, will be held in Copenhagen between 7 and 18 December.

World Television, which has a long track record in environmental communications, has developed climatetalks.tv in order to host video footage and other multimedia assets related to climate change from a variety of sources to support broadcast, print and online journalists’ stories around the event.

Video footage will be available for download in broadcast-quality from October through until the end of December 2009 and beyond into 2010. In addition to providing the latest stories on the debate, the site also incorporates RSS-feed functionality so journalists can sign-up to receive alerts when new content is added.

Make your own television shows on OMG TV

OMG I’m on .TV is post-analog TV station broadcasting in NYC on channel 14. We’re broadcasting internet content to your TV, through a low-power TV transmitter. The website acts as an aggregator of online video content. You get to create the shows, vote on the shows, and participate in the whole process.

Create your own T.V. shows! There are a number of ways that you will be able to submit content, such as, an RSS feed via Yahoo Pipes, a Youtube playlist, or by keywords and selection fields.

OMG.TV

The Digital Fringe Festival

The Digital Fringe Festival is seeking all sorts of screens across Australia and the world! Do you have a public screen, projector, TV or old computer monitor that you would like to play free digital art on?

Digital Fringe is seeking a plethora of public screening venues to participate in September/October 2009 – urban screens, galleries, shopping centers, bars, cafes, pubs, retail venues, libraries, salons and even swimming pools who have a screen of any size, to show our curated collection of screen based art. Help us to bring cutting edge digital artworks by local and international artists to the public.

No screen is too large or small – it may be in a back corner of a library on a computer monitor, part of a shop’s window display, a wall of TV’s in an electrical goods shop, a projector in a foyer, or a huge public screen. We simply want to get this artistic content into as many nooks and crannies of public space as possible.

What is Digital Fringe?
Digital Fringe is an open access public arts festival that places contemporary screen based media in public locations.  It provides artists with access to an extensive network of hundreds of public screens and non-traditional audiences throughout Australia and the world. Screening venues receive a playlist curated from the diverse visual works of animation, abstract, video art, short film, machinima, motion graphics, photography and stills submitted to the Digital Fringe festival via our website.

In keeping with the Fringe Festival charter, Digital Fringe is open access and accessible to emerging and established artists, particularly those working in screen based and new media.  Submissions are received from all around the world: from professional artists to bedroom doodlers and everybody in between. Screening venues range from busy bars and cafes, bustling shopping centres, walls of TV’s in electrical stores, State and regional libraries, art galleries, and cultural institutions, suburban shop fronts and on massive urban screens in public plazas like Melbourne’s Federation Square.

All submissions also play on the Digital Fringe website

Digital Fringe started in 2006 and runs on the cultural capital of Horse Bazaar and the contributions of numerous artists, screen operators and audiences. It has been put together with generous support from Film Victoria, Melbourne Fringe Festival and other sponsors.

If you are interested or would like some further information please contact Simeon Moran on:screens@digitalfringe.com.au

Sydney INK wants clean skin

Sydney Ink is after people with clean skin willing to be tattooed for the TV show..

If that’s you or someone you know.

Please email them on production@plumpfilms.com.au

Chris Badenoch ousted from Masterchef Australia

Have the producers of Masterchef Australia made a big mistake in ousting talented cook Chris Badenoch? With a resounding ‘what were they thinking’ echoed across the bulletin boards and Facebook fan pages tonight; many claim they will now boycott the final.

The fact that the constantly flustered and frustrated women contestants Julie and Poh are now the finalists for the series may cause a big fat de-escalation of the touted 3 million people expected to tune in for the Sunday night final. It’s evident from internet postings that something may have gone very awry when tonight’s decision was announced and people are extremely angry.

Many feel that Julie basically won the judges over with emotion rather than her culinary talents. Using her kids as the reason she needed to go through seemed to be central to the selection process. Although it was quite astonishing that Julie made it through without even finishing her dishes nor plating them, this will undoubtedly be the biggest insult to beer meister Badenoch.

The decision may well back fire on the show’s producers and it’s expected that a torrent of complaints will hit the mainstream press. Perhaps it’s a case of mis-reading Aussie culture. Aussies want the under-dog to win on one proviso, they deserve to!

Survivors of Sexual Assault asked to come forward

My name is Anne Worthington and I am a Producer with the Insight program at SBS Television.

www.sbs.com.au/insight

I am currently preparing a program around the issue of sexual assault with a particular focus on the issue of CONSENT

Is it as simple as yes or no?

We are preparing this program following the issues that arose from the recent Matthew Johns incident.

We will be exploring some of the attitudes around this issue.

We want to hear your thoughts and your stories.

We are seeking survivors of sexual assault to come forward and tell their story as well as people who have an experience of unethical unwanted sex. (even if something is not criminally sexual assault does it make it right?)

If your interested an initial chatplease contact me -there is no pressure to be on the show.

Email anne.worthington@sbs.com.au
Anne Worthington
Producer
Insight
SBS Television, Australia